I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many years for disk to disk backups. Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only using tar/star for backups? Tar in its various forms are fine for some items, like home directories, but dump and restore in FreeBSD also gave me the possibility of easily doing a bare metal restore. What are my options for command line only backups? What is everyone else using? I do know about Bacula and Amanda... I don't know, maybe I have been using FreeBSD for too long. Thanks, Erin
Quoting Erin Fortenberry <Erin at Fortenberry.net>:> I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many > years for disk to disk backups. > > Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only > using tar/star for backups? > > Tar in its various forms are fine for some items, like home directories, but > dump and restore in FreeBSD also gave me the possibility of easily doing a > bare metal restore. > > What are my options for command line only backups? What is everyone else > using? > > I do know about Bacula and Amanda... I don't know, maybe I have been using > FreeBSD for too long.Have you considered Arkeia? <http://www.arkeia.com> They offer Arkeia Light - which is free for very small installations. Barry
On Apr 4, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Erin Fortenberry wrote:> I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for > many > years for disk to disk backups. > > Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck > on only > using tar/star for backups?if dump is what you're used to, keep using it. dump/restore are part of CentOS: [shuff at vecna ~]$ rpm -qi dump Name : dump Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.4b39 Vendor: CentOS Release : 3.EL4.2 Build Date: Tue 23 Aug 2005 05:32:49 AM EDT Install Date: Mon 21 Nov 2005 08:29:21 AM EST Build Host: build1- i386 Group : Applications/Archiving Source RPM: dump-0.4b39-3.EL4.2.src.rpm Size : 1588834 License: BSD Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 23 Aug 2005 06:09:50 AM EDT, Key ID a53d0bab443e1821Packager : Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> URL : http://dump.sourceforge.net Summary : Programs for backing up and restoring ext2/ext3 filesystems. Description : The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape, or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups. Install dump if you need a system for both backing up filesystems and restoring filesystems after backups. --- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:43:07AM -0400, Erin Fortenberry wrote:> I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many > years for disk to disk backups. > > Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only > using tar/star for backups?I'm using dump/restore on CentOS. AFAIK, it is the best "backup software" avaliable. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEMo7ApdyWzQ5b5ckRApiIAJ4n0PPwrmlTOKhAJW7FkZSTLl/qzACgjO7T KKNiFUdqJDXFOjhJdVmDyFw=bypj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Anyone using Bacula? I'm looking at this because I want all my data on a mixed environment to get backed up over the network to a single place. -Jason Erin Fortenberry wrote:>I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many >years for disk to disk backups. > >Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only >using tar/star for backups? > >Tar in its various forms are fine for some items, like home directories, but >dump and restore in FreeBSD also gave me the possibility of easily doing a >bare metal restore. > >What are my options for command line only backups? What is everyone else >using? > >I do know about Bacula and Amanda... I don't know, maybe I have been using >FreeBSD for too long. > > > >Thanks, > >Erin > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 09:43, Erin Fortenberry wrote:> I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many > years for disk to disk backups. > > Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only > using tar/star for backups? > > Tar in its various forms are fine for some items, like home directories, but > dump and restore in FreeBSD also gave me the possibility of easily doing a > bare metal restore. > > What are my options for command line only backups? What is everyone else > using? > > I do know about Bacula and Amanda... I don't know, maybe I have been using > FreeBSD for too long.If you want on-line disk storage, look at backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/). It uses compression and pooling of duplicates to keep much more online than you would expect and has a nice web interface for browsing backups and doing restores. It doesn't do bare metal restores by itself, but it can give you a tar image that can be installed through your install disk booted in rescue mode or one of the live CDs like knoppix. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Erin Fortenberry wrote:> I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many > years for disk to disk backups. > > Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only > using tar/star for backups?I use a variation of snapshot + dump for fast backups on a fc4 box. I would expect it to work on centos as well. Basically I use LVM and create a volume group on a large drive. Then create a logical partition using 50% or less of the volume group. Once a week I create a read only snapshot of the logical partition which takes about 2 seconds. Then I dump the snapshot to tape and delete the snapshot partition. I don't even have unmount the filesystem so it works well on a live system (atleast in my experience).